Washed Down jacket in the washing machine, how to unclump the down?

[Catloverss]

I got second hand North face Nuptse jacket, badly stank upon arriving.
Says washing machine washable on 30 degrees or less.
I put it on specific Down jackets program, sadly even the lowest spin it had was 800.
it’s obvious clumped, the down inside, big lumps of down stuck together.
I have no tumble dryer, already checked with friends too.
At the moment it rests on towel but how to fluff it up?

You might want heavier balls - maybe borrow some.

It needs to be throughly dry before you do anything. Put it over the back of a chair and close to the radiator and then have some patience. Then when it’s dry - might take 24/48 hours- try all the things that people have suggested. It is totally fixable. You have to trust the process.

I already did this 2x today. No helped.

I have done it loads of times. What have you got to lose you've already washed it. Just let it dry thoroughly and shake it about. Chat GPT doesn't have real life experience.

Don't dry it flat on a towel. Let the air get to it.

This. We haven’t a tumble drier. I wash down coats and gilets loads. Usually hang over a radiator giving it a shake every now as it’s drying and then and then a massive one once dry. The clumps sort themselves out. You think it’s ruined when they first come out of the machine then magically it just all settles and goes back to as it was as it dries.

Hang it over a radiator or similar to dry then shake it out.
It will be a far better result if you find a laundrette somewhere for a tumble dry — there will definitely be one somewhere even if your local one closed — but you don’t sound keen so you won’t get the best result I suspect. Should be wearable though.

Uniqlo have a step by step guide on how to wash down coats and how to plump up the down .

Op, do you have one of these locally.

https://www.wash-megroup.com/en-uk/

You could go use one of their dryers...

Mine managed to be fine with drying next to a radiator with vigorous shakes every half hour or so!

Washed mine in the summer and thought it was ruined as I pulled it out of the machine. It looked like a sack of clumpy wet feathers. Once it was completely dry and shaken every few hours it was fine.

Update. I hanged it on a wide hanger and near the radiator on yesterday’s evening. During the night it was hanging freely on a hanger on a clothes dryer horse.
Today’s it seems a bit fluffed up, not everywhere yet, but I keep giving a hard shakes every hr or two..
Thanks everyone for advice..

More update, so yes you were all right!
It’s dry now and fully perked/ fluffed up!
Unbelievable hahahah but yes, it’s fine now.

Great! I can remember the first time I washed a down coat and panicked as it looked completely ruined but after a few days it fluffed up again. Oh the relief!

I let mine air dry then give it a really good shake. Takes a few days.

Oh ye of little faith! We told you it would be fine!

I'd probably unpick areas of the lining, reach in rearrange the down and sew the lining closed again!

It seems you’ve solved it @Catloverssbut I’ll add this anyway which I happened to see on Insta. I haven’t tried it myself yet but am looking for methods that don’t involve turning on a tumble dryer in these expensive times. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIqjvuLOxlD/?igsh=eWtmaDAxbXJ3bWQx

What? Don't do that. There is no need.

You don't need a tumble drier - the jacket has to be completely dry. Spin it again on the highest setting on you machine, then put it somewhere to dry, it may take a few days. when it's close to dry, start shaking it as if it was a duvet. Keep doing this until you're sure it's dry. The filling should plump up and settle properly if the section stitching is still intact.

Turn the water off your spin cycle and pop it in with dryer balls.